Elu

Elu is the ancient founding king of the Cielcin, a figure from approximately twenty thousand years in the past who is venerated in Cielcin tradition as the source of sacred law. Syriani Dorayaica claims direct hereditary descent from Elu, using the archaic term "izhkurrah" for blood to assert this lineage.

Elu's defining act, preserved in religious memory and witnessed by Hadrian in a vision inside the skull-temple at Akterumu, was the founding sacrifice at that site. Receiving a divine command from the dead Watcher Miudanar, Elu sacrificed its companion Avarra on the temple steps, crying out "Irnasar" -- I sacrifice -- as an offering for strength and truth. It then commanded its thirteen closest servants, the aetane including Dumann, Zahaka, and Umna, to build an altar and burn Avarra's body. From this act descends the Cielcin prohibition against aeta slaying aeta within the temple. Elu ruled over a vast army of Cielcin and is depicted wielding a bone-white knife in ancient, primitive dress.